

I'm asking WHY it does not work.





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    "Vocabulary" is an excellent analogy. – Paused until further notice. Nov 11 '10 at 18:32
  • Android also supports Linux bnaries(not packages) if they are compiled for ARM because it is based on Linux – Suici Doga Feb 20 '16 at 8:11
  • @SuiciDoga Sort of, but it's more complicated than that. The Android kernel can run Linux binaries (if they're compiled for the right kernel ABI, e.g. wrt the use of NEON registers), but if you want to run dynamically-linked programs, you have to install all the libraries as well. (And if you do that you could install a package manager too, so “binaries but not package” isn't really true.) – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Feb 20 '16 at 14:01
  • Yes ,I know about that you have to change library path etc – Suici Doga Feb 20 '16 at 15:32



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    Agree with the answer...additional piece of data that may be relevant: ELF(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format) vs PE(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PE_executable) – RobotHumans Nov 11 '10 at 13:33
  • Ah yes, it needs a different loader as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_%28computing%29 – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Nov 11 '10 at 13:35
  • I especially like the second piece of information missing from the answer by @Gilles. – Timothy Gu Dec 7 '14 at 6:01
  • @IgnacioVazquez-Abrams That's very interesting. What if i told you that i just run a windows game PlantsVsZombies.exe on Ubuntu 16.04 Linux natively? I just did that out of boredom knowing that it would not launch, but it did and i could play it perfectly fine. That's like impossible, because that game needs the steam api to run first and it clearly didn't. How did it launch??? Should i make a new question for that? – Nikos Feb 24 '17 at 19:56
  • @RestlessC0bra: Wine and Mono are things. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Feb 24 '17 at 21:15





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    Somehow I'd like to believe that Bill Gates answered my question ;-) – Nav Jul 31 '16 at 17:24

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